You also have to accept that the lenses haven't been changed much since the 1920s, when Helms was growing up just west of Wingate in Monroe.

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Mr. MONROE: Last year, my grandma was inducted into the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame.

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"My experience with the paramedics team was great -- if that's possible under the circumstances, " says Monroe, a teacher and writer who lives in Charles Town, West Virginia.

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His 19-year-old son, Nick Chiapperini, was on the job in the Monroe Ambulance Company dispatch center when the call for help came in, according to West Webster Fire Department spokesman Al Sienkiewicz.

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